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Revealing the Power in Place
The term “power of place” is a nice variation on “sense of place,” that term used to evoke an individual’s special connection to a pond, a town, an island. “The Power of Place: Three Views of Maine” at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor features the work of a painter, Robert Pollien, and two photographers,
Art and Gender on Monhegan
When Monhegan Island’s renowned artistic heritage is invoked, it is more often than not an all-male roster of painters that is trotted out: Kent, Bellows, Hopper, Winter, Tam, Wyeth, et al. “On Island: Women Artists of Monhegan,” on view at the University of New England Art Gallery in Portland (through Sept. 23), goes a long
Through the Photographer’s Lens: Penobscot Bay and Beyond
“Through the Photographer’s Lens: Penobscot Bay and Beyond,” this summer’s special exhibition at the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, opens with a tribute to Everett “Red” Boutilier (1918-2003). The journalist photographer covered the coast of Maine for nearly a half-century (from the 1960s to the `90s) for the Boston Globe, Maine Coast Fisherman and other
Sailing Maine
Photographs by Becca Albee. Poems by Jan Bailey, Kate Cheney Chappell, Keller Cushing Freeman, Kristen Lindquist, Candice Stover and Elizabeth Tibbetts Cedar Mountain Books, Greenville, South Carolina 12 pp. $14.95 “Lost trees have righted themselves. Everyone is still alive.” The poet George Oppen, who sailed among the islands of Penobscot Bay, once wrote, “There is
My Grandmother, Carrie: Reflections on a Maine Life
With an afterword by Robert Creeley. Privately printed, 2002. $25. Softbound. 98 pp. When Daily Life was More Immediate In her later years Helen Power belonged to a writing group in Waldoboro and shared her prose with the seven women to whom this book is dedicated. They must have looked forward to each new installment
The Camera’s Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England
Introduction by John R. Stilgoe Historic New England (distributed by Tilbury House, Publishers) 2006 Deluxe paperback with flaps. 144 pp. $29.95 A Fine Piece of Historical Scrapbooking An indefatigable historian of the Northeast, W. H. Bunting of Whitefield, Maine, has contributed considerably to our knowledge and appreciation of seacoast subjects through such books as Steamers,
Boat Models: Then and Now
Boat Models by the Score – and Much More Where to start? The exhibition “Boat Models: Then and Now” at the Great Harbor Maritime Museum in Northeast Harbor is full of treasures, from the sleek half models that look like Sam Cady shaped canvases on the wall to an old steamship with pigs on board.
Away Happens
University Press of New England 138 pp. Softbound. $14.95 An Eye for the Details of Life Phil Crossman is the Dave Barry of the Maine islands — well, at least of the lobstering community of Vinalhaven, where he has lived since childhood (not long enough to be considered from “Here,” as he explains in the
“A Maritime Album: 100 Photographs and their Stories”
Good to Look At In the first three years at its Norumbega Hall location in downtown Bangor, the University of Maine Museum of Art has become one of the state’s premier venues for viewing photography. This reputation owes a great deal to museum director Wally Mason, an accomplished photographer himself who understands both the aesthetics
Ralph Stanley: Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder
Down East Books, 2004 $24.95 “The nearest thing you can build to something that’s living” Wooden boatbuilding is an art and a craft, and Ralph Stanley is one of the foremost designers and builders of these boats in the country. In a career that started in the mid-1940s, Stanley, of Southwest Harbor on Mount Desert